What it means to be conscious is more than just a philosophical question. Researchers continue to study how conscious experience arises from the electrochemical activity of the human brain. The answer has important implications for how brain health is understood, from coma, in which a person is alive but unable to move or react to …
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1. The incidence of total adverse events and specific adverse events was similar between the emraclidine and placebo groups. 2. There was an initial modest increase in heart rate and blood pressure with emraclidine that was not judged to be clinically significant at week 6. Level of evidence assessment: 1 (Excellent) Summary of the study: …
In the 1990s, mental health awareness organizations like the National Alliance on Mental Illness were hopeful that the stigma towards schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses would soon end. Once people realize that schizophrenia is a disease of the brain, possibly due to faulty neurotransmission or miswiring, we will no longer blame people with schizophrenia …
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Led by Jin Szatkiewicz, PhD, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and colleagues at the University of Toronto have found that a rare form of a common genetic variant called tandem repeats is strongly associated to the development of schizophrenia. Jin Szatkiewicz, PhD CHAPEL HILL, NC – In our cells, the language of DNA …
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ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — When Chastity Murry had her first psychotic breakdown, she went to her bathroom and swallowed an entire bottle of pills, hoping to die. Her teenage daughter had to perform CPR to save her life. Around the same time, more than ten years ago, the man who would become her husband, Dante …
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ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. – When Chastity Murry had her first psychotic break, she went to her bathroom and swallowed a whole bottle of pills, hoping to die. Her teenage daughter had to perform CPR to save her life. Around the same time, more than ten years ago, the man who would become her husband, Dante Murry, …
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